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EF0 tornado in Barton County, Kansas

Tornado May 16, 2017 · Barton County, Kansas

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Brief touchdown over open country.

The wider storm

A cyclic supercell thunderstorm produced a long track tornado across portions of Barton county, Kansas. The tornado initially touched down 3 miles west of Larned, Kansas (See NWS Dodge City, Kansas narrative for more information on the initial touchdown), traveling northeast, near Pawnee Rock, Kansas to 3 miles west of Great Bend, Kansas to just west of Hoisington, Kansas. The tornado was on the ground for 27 miles with damage rated from EF0 to a high end EF3 (3 miles west of Great Bend, Kansas). Two minor injuries were reported. Another minor tornado touchdown occurred in open country.

Began near Susank (38.6500, -98.7600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Barton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 688492. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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